Boring, disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (16 July 2001)

Watched this one with my love, and we both came away a bit disappointed. Nice enough imagery, music is fine, but the story doesn't really captivate or rather: it doesn't even simply 'get going'. A baby is 'somehow' left on a cruise-ship, the boy grows up and 'somehow' turns out to be a natural for the piano, 'somehow' rises to tremendous fame and in the end is not prepared to go out into the endless, asphyxiating world. He goes down with the ship, without having done anyting really worthwile. Neither intruiging depth nor amusing shallowness, no heart-stirring romance or nail-biting supsense: just a pretty long period of time containing not very much. Wouldn't pick this one if you wanted your date to curl up in your arms (though I did almost fall asleep)